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IT was like a scene from a movie as a woman shook uncontrollably before throwing herself to the ground and letting out a loud wail.
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Mico readies to train school principals |
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
MICO University College is to position itself as the institution to train Jamaica's school principals, even as the education ministry solidifies plans to enhance the management of the island's schools.
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Minister MacMillan |
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday increased his eight-month-old Cabinet to 20 members by confirming that former police commissioner and soldier Colonel Trevor MacMillan will be made minister of national security, an appointment the Administration hopes will deflect heavy flak it has been taking for failing to confront crime head-on.
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Special lanes coming to encourage car pooling in Kingston |
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
THE creation of more dedicated bus and high occupancy lanes to encourage greater use of public transportation and car pooling during peak hour are among new initiatives being proposed to address traffic congestion in some sections of Kingston, the Jamaican capital.
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Teen on weapon possession, robbery charges granted bail |
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
A 17-year-old student of a Kingston high school was last Friday granted bail after he was held and charged with possession of an offensive weapon and robbery with aggravation of another student in St Andrew last month.
According to the prosecution, the teenager was among a group of students who held up and robbed a student of a digital camera at knife point.
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Crime makes Jamaica a hard sell, says Bartlett |
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Montego Bay, St James — As the country grapples with an escalating murder rate and rampant criminality, minister of tourism, Edmund Bartlett, on the weekend admitted that Jamaica's label as an 'unsafe destination' had made the tourism product a hard sell.
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Caribbean police chiefs to meet in Jamaica |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Police chiefs from across the region will assemble at the Jamaica Grande Hotel in Ocho Rios on Wednesday for the 23rd annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police (ACCP).
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Golding, Jagdeo to resolve rice trade dispute |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
ST JOHNS, Antigua (AP) — Caribbean officials say a rice dispute between Jamaica and Guyana will be mediated by the two countries' leaders after regional talks failed Saturday at a trade summit.
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Bartlett scolds casino critics |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Montego Bay, St James — In his most scathing remarks yet against the detractors of casino gambling, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, on the weekend described their objections as irrational and illogical and maintained that the attraction would be controlled.
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Gov't needs to communicate importance of world food crisis, say women leaders |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Communication from Government is what is needed to get Jamaicans to understand the world food crisis, as well as the importance of them including locally grown staples in their diet.
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Mayor's crackdown on traders nets $3m in four days |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Desmond McKenzie, says that just over $3 million in outstanding trading fees were collected in four days last week following Monday's start of his drive to regularise trading in the Corporate Area.
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Cops hold main suspect in August Town violence |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Police on Friday reported that one of the main suspects in the recent escalation of gun violence in the volatile community of August Town in St Andrew was nabbed during a police operation in West Kingston on Wednesday.
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Farmer sees St Elizabeth factory transforming agriculture |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Mandeville, Manchester - For decades it has annoyed and irritated Tony Freckleton - an itch that won't go away.
Why, he wondered, should the communities of the so-called bread-basket areas of South St Elizabeth and South Manchester be unable to benefit from the profitable value-added aspects of agriculture?
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'Collect your relatives, please!' |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Public hospitals are currently experiencing a critical shortage of bed space because people fail to collect their relatives from the hospitals once they have been treated, according to Health Minister Ruddy Spencer.
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17-year-old makes strong case for granting the deaf drivers' licences |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Why should the Government give deaf persons permission to drive?
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